In a relatively unknown place, on the 3rd floor of JCVI in Rockville, MD, is a small fungal room where art meets science (and of course where all our fungal research takes place). Fungus often gets such a bad reputation for being gross and somewhat ‘standard’. We fungal folks know better and I am hoping to educate others with the underlying beauty that fungi possess, in a funky way. I recognize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I felt this might convince some that fungus can be fun and not just something that grows in the back of your fridge or a nuisance that contaminates your plates. Please enjoy these funky fungal holiday art forms.

Thank you for all the comments. I try to predict the outcome of how the fungus will grow, however sometimes I am also surprised by the result (the ‘snow’ in the snowman is actually contamination that fit the scene perfectly). Expect another next year, I will start brainstorming.

I just discovered this and is pretty cool!
At some point of my life I was doing similar stuff but I didn’t have all strains and colors to get so impressive fungal bioart! Love it! I just posted it on my blog!

My first and only science project –
The Effects of Various Compounds on Mold…circa 1971??? And I STILL LOVE finding some of the most beautiful moldy in the back of my fridge. I think I never really thought of that as so much science! I would love to know the name of a reference for identifying them.
I’m a middle school foreign language teacher who thinks she missed her calling to the world of fungal science-and-art! Are your designs going to be copyrighted???

That’s fantastic!
And I’m the member of non-profit organization Saint-Petersburg Mycological Society from Russia. So can I use images fro galleries on official page in social network (http://vk.com/planeta_gribov) of Saint-Petersburg Mycological Society? I’d like to post these pictures and working link to this page.
Thank you beforehand for any answer.